After walking the neighborhood and speaking with neighbors I returned to our townhouse and told my wife about the tree’s that are blocking the roads. She asked me, “will we be OK”? “Of course we will”.

Although I have pretty much always lived in an urban type of world I always pictured myself homesteading in a small cabin up in the mountains. This has been a dream of mine for a long time but the reality is that I am still chained to the system. And I enjoy the fact that I have neighbors and friends to talk to and share lives with. But I do have a garage and for the last several years I have been preparing just incase something did happen. As I opened the inside door to the garage and looked at all of the shelves filled with supplies I turned to my wife and said, “Yes honey, we are going to be OK”.

I started putting this plan into place based on just a few topics of basic survival.
-Water
-Food
-Energy
-Medical
-Security
-Communications

All of these things I have been building upon in my garage which will soon become our survival cabin.

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About SimpleLivingOver50

At 53 years old I am starting to realize how life changes both physically and emotionally. I strive for a life of simplicity. I am winning the battle with type II diabetes, created a plan to have all debt paid off in 4 years including the house, taking advantage of every opportunity to live life to it's fullest through adventures in nature, hiking, biking, loving and learning.

This is true, and since we just moved into our new home, this will be my focus for the next few months, helping my husband plan and remodel, get it feeling like home and setting it up to be organized and efficient. Somehow, I have to fit writing and daily life in as well, lol. Maybe when it’s organized, we can start stockpiling for survival as well!

Don’t start felling the trees, my friend! Many of the lime (tilia) trees in our street were blown down in the hurricane that hit us 25 years ago, but neighbours collected to replace them. If you have a disaster those that fall will provide fuel, those that remain will continue their daily task of clearing carbon dioxide and supplying us with oxygen!

Keep on Keeping on

The idea of keep on keeping on is real. Even when you get to the point where you think that you have reached your potential, just keep moving forward and sooner or later you will reach the next stage of your mission. I suppose this applies to just about anything in life. I am sure that one day I will look back at all that I have accomplished and think that it wasn't too hard, hell, I look back now at where I am and where I was and think that it wasn't difficult. But the truth is that each step of the way feels difficult as we move forward into the unknown of our mission. The unknown knowledge, the unknown endurance and the unknown strength that we possess inside ourselves waiting to come out. I have beat the smoking habit, I will beat diabetes and I will arrive one day completely debt free. For this is my mission.